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TIL that the Code of Hammurabi, while notorious for its eye for an eye punishments and the removal of body parts of the guilty party, was also one of the earliest pieces of written law to have it a requirement for an innocent person to be assumed innocent until proven guilty

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mx07O TIL when the game Twister was first introduced in 1966, one of Milton Bradley’s competitors denounced the game & accused them of selling “sex in a box”, & Sears refused to put it in their catalog, deeming it inappropriate. But after Johnny Carson featured it on ‘The Tonight Show’, sales skyrocketed.
MeDN0 TIL: That Moores law states that the number of transistors per square inch doubles every 18 months not the processing power of the hardware
kO9Yd TIL: Schwarzenegger Kept His Sword From Conan, and Kept it Around While He Was Governor
xovb TIL the term ‘love’ in tennis originated from the French word l'oeuf, meaning egg. The zero looks like an egg, l'oeuf, which sounds very much like 'love’.
wL5W1 TIL a casket is rectangular and a coffin is hexagonal. The tapered ends of a coffin saves a bit of cost because it uses less material to make.